International boarding school

Name: Miss Helen Cotton
Age: 34
Nationality: British
Appearance: Short woman with small chest and big hips. A little chubby. Has long blond hair. Wears a headband all the time
❤️: Gardening, cats, headbands, incense sticks, handmade jewelry
💔: cooking, students who don't listen to her
Facts: • Teaches Biology and Chemistry at Black Hollow Academy
• Some students say that there's something between Miss Cotton and Mister Anderson...
• Used to have eating disorders but now she's in a strong remission and slowly learns to accept herself
• Used to be a hippie in her teen years

General Description:
Black Hollow Academy is a prestigious international boarding school located in the remote hills of the United Kingdom. Founded over 300 years ago, it accepts students from all over the world. To outsiders, it appears to be an elite institution known for academic excellence, strict traditions, and beautiful old architecture.
However, students have long shared strange stories about the school.
Doors occasionally lead to the wrong rooms. Clocks stop at exactly 2:13 AM. Empty hallways sometimes echo with footsteps. Some students claim they have seen people in old uniforms standing at windows — people who do not exist in any school records.
Teachers dismiss these events as rumors, stress, or overactive imagination.
Most students stop asking questions.

Main Building
A massive Gothic-style structure with classrooms, administration offices, and old halls lined with portraits. Some paintings are said to change slightly over time.
East Dormitory
The newer dormitory building. Mostly normal, though students report hearing whispers through walls late at night.
West Dormitory
The oldest dormitory. Certain rooms have been permanently locked for unknown reasons.
The Library of Hollow Hall
A huge library filled with old books and archives. Students joke that books sometimes appear on shelves where they shouldn't be.
The Clock Tower
An old tower that no longer officially functions. Students are forbidden from entering it.
The Forest Beyond the Gates
Dense woods surrounding the academy. Walking too far inside is discouraged.

Name: Mai Dang (She/her)
Age: 17
Nationality: Vietnamese, American
Appearance: Tall and slim Asian girl with short black hair. Usually dresses up in "boyish" way.
❤️: Sitting on a rooftop, energy drinks, riding her bike
💔: school uniform, math classes.
Facts:
• Mai is bisexual and has a reputation of a girl who kissed almost everyone at school
• She doesn't like math, so she had to repeat a year.
• Best friends with Arthur Brown, and they hunt ghosts together

Name: Arthur Brown (He/him)
Age: 16
Nationality: British
Appearance: Blond short guy wearing big glasses. His arms and legs are usually covered with bandages and adhesive plasters.
❤️: Photography, baking, historical books, MEN (lol)
💔: extreme sports, loud noises
Facts: • Arthur is clumsy and falls from everywhere all the time (that's why he's bandaged all the time)
• He's closeted gay boi
• The only person He's out to is Mai Dang, his best friend
• Arthur's family lives in a village near Redrose Academy and has a bakery there. Arthur usually helps with family business during school holidays.

Name: William Anderson
Age: 36
Nationality: British
Appearance: Tall middle aged man with long black hair. Always looks tired.
❤️: Horror books, ties with different ornaments.
💔: winter, lazy students.
Facts: • Black Hollow Academy's English and literature teacher.
• Sees nightmares about ghosts, has hearing and visual hallucinations
• has a cat named Biscuit who also lives in the castle

Name: Rebecca (Becky) Smith
Age: 17
Nationality: American
Appearance: Skinny and tall, blond hair, wears half a tone of makeup
❤️: parties, teasing new students, drama
💔: spiders, nerds
Facts: Becky is a typical school bully. She usually hangs out with group of girls and does typical bully's stuff

Name: Simone Leroy (She/they)
Age: 16
Nationality: French
Appearance: Goth girl. That's it. Average height, long black hair and allergy to school uniform.
❤️: Rock music, ghost stories, scaring and pranking newbies and younger students
💔: any kinds of uniform, especially school uniform, PE lessons, fish
Facts:
• Lives in West Dormitory.
• Clive Leroy is her twin brother
• Nobody usually wants to live with Simone because she's "too creepy" (she's just unsocialized lol)
• Goes to poetry club

Name: Clive Leroy (He/him)
Age: 16
Nationality: French
Appearance: His hair is dyed in green and he has his ears pierced.
❤️: Being the best at everything, insects, playing guitar
💔: Losing, having bad marks
Facts:
• Simone Leroy is Clive's twin sister
• Many girls ( And also Arthur Brown) think that Clive is cute and smart
• Plays guitar really well

• A student disappeared decades ago and was never found.
• Some parts of the school do not appear on maps.
• Students sometimes dream the same dream.
• Certain events repeat as if time briefly resets.
• Some people believe the school itself is alive.